Name: 'THE REMAINS OF DISTANT TIMES': ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NATIONAL TRUST
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'THE REMAINS OF DISTANT TIMES': ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NATIONAL TRUST

by David Morgan Evans; Peter Salway; David Thackray

Published by The Boydell Press. 1st. 1996

Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. The National Trust owns approximately 40,000 archaeological sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. During its centenary year the Trust, in close cooperation with the Society of Antiquaries, held a conference designed to highlight the important part archaeology now plays in the management of its properties - ancient monuments and landscapes, historic houses, and other historic buildings. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ix and 235 pages including index.

Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn and light rubbing to lower edge of boards. Pale foxspots to endpapers. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel.

ISBN: 0851156711
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The Contributors
Introduction Peter Salway
1 Archaeology and the National Trust Sir Angus Stirling
2 Shared history, shared purposes: opening address by the President of the Society of Antiquaries of London Simon Jervis
3 Landscape: personality, perception and perspective Peter Fowler
4 A is for archaeology Julian H. Prideaux
5 National Landscapes, National Parks, national figures and the National Trust David Morgan Evans
6 Ancient Landscapes and the modern public Richard Bradley
7 Hatfield forest Oliver Rackham
8 The archaeology of gardens and designed landscapes Christopher Taylor
9 Bodiam Castle, East Sussex: a fourteenth-century designed landscape Paul Everson
10 A Selworthy cottage Isabel Richardson
11 Landscape with engines R. Angus Buchanan
12 Mills in the Landscape Marilyn Palmer
13 Archaeology in education Gareth Binns
14 The tourist as a figure in the National Trust Landscape Priscilla Boniface
15 The vicar's dewpond, the National Trust shop and the rise of paganism Michael Pitts
16 Landscapes, archaeology and the National Trust Timothy Darvill
17 Safe in our hands? Nicholas Johnson
18 Buildings in the Landscape Susan Denyer
19 Historic landscape studies Philip Claris
20 Ancient and modern in nature conservation Katherine A. Hearn
21 Tread lightly: public access and archaeology Jo Burgon
22 The archaeology of an industrial society? Richard Keen
23 Interpreting Avebury: the role of the Alexander Keiller Museum Rosamund M J Cleal
24 Orford Ness Angus Wainwright
25 The National Trust and World Heritage Sites Tiffany Hunt
26 Past significances, future challenges David Thackray
27 Secured for the future? Geoffrey Wainwright
Index